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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reports that the testing United Kingdom Anti-Doping (UKAD) was able to conduct February 15 through May 29, 2016, has yielded 52 adverse analytical findings, with 49 of those for meldonium.One sample returned an adverse analytical finding with meldonium coupled with tuaminohetane, and one was stanozolol and...

Ukraine`s Ministry of Justice has prepared and passed on to the Russian side the papers necessary to return home its citizen Mykola Karpiuk, who was illegally sentenced by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Chechnya to 22.5 years in a strict-regime penal colony, Deputy Justice Minister on European Integration Serhiy Petukhov wrote on Facebook....

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says if Britain votes to leave the EU, the bloc would face further upheaval. Germany`s defense minister added her voice to the debate, saying the UK`s pragmatism would be missed, according to Deutsche Welle.Warning that the last thing the EU needed was another crisis, Steinmeier said on Wednesday that a...

Oil prices fell on Thursday, heading for a sixth session of declines, following a lower-than-expected draw on U.S. stockpiles and amid worries Britain might leave the European Union, Reuters reported.Front-month U.S. crude futures were down 53 cents, or 1.1%, at $47.48 a barrel at 0637 GMT, and Brent crude was 49 cents, or 1%, lower at $48.48 a...

U.S. President Barack Obama met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at the White House on Wednesday despite a warning by China that it would damage diplomatic relations, according to Reuters.The meeting came at a time of heightened tensions between the United States and China over Beijing`s assertive pursuit of territorial claims...

The Bellingcat open source research team has published new satellite images that show the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”Google Earth has recently added updated satellite imagery at the Russia-Ukraine border for August 26, 2014, near the height of Russian intervention in Ukraine. These satellite images show the deployment of Russian military...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter has commended Ukrainian Minister of Defense General Stepan Poltorak for undertaking an ambitious program of comprehensive defense reforms, according to a readout provided by Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook on June 15.”Secretary Carter commended Minister Poltorak for undertaking an ambitious program of...

The main locations of wreckage from the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the eastern Mediterranean last month have been identified by a vessel owned by Deep Ocean Search, the Egyptian-led investigation committee said Wednesday, according to Reuters.The John Lethbridge, a search boat contracted by the Egyptian government, is working against the clock...

The Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 41 times in the past 24 hours, including 25 times in the Mariupol sector, 15 times in the Donetsk sector and once in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. View map in full size In the Mariupol sector,...

The National Bank of Ukraine on Wednesday evening strengthened the official hryvnia exchange rate by three kopiykas, bringing the national currency to UAH 24.88 to the dollar.The Central Bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for June 16:$100 costs UAH 2,488.7642 (on June 15, it was UAH...